For the individual wanting to
break free of the unending
sea of collectives and
institutions contending for
his soul...and more...put together
by a Visionary Philosopher, so I've
been told. Maybe you want to stay
tuned to see if that's true...
with notes on The End of the Nation State.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Breakthrough in solar panel prices

Nanosolar’s founder and chief executive, Martin Roscheisen, claims to be the first solar panel manufacturer to be able to profitably sell solar panels for less than $1 a watt. That is the price at which solar energy becomes less expensive than coal.

“With a $1-per-watt panel,” he said, “it is possible to build $2-per-watt systems.”

According to the Energy Department, building a new coal plant costs about $2.1 a watt, plus the cost of fuel and emissions, he said.

That's not the real news.

Centralized power generation will be the newdodo bird...extinct at some point.